Arms imports at constant USD prices from 1990 reached 14.5 USD mil in 2015 in Yemen, according to the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database.
This is
142 %
more than
in the previous year.

Historically, arms imports at constant USD prices from 1990 in Yemen reached an all time high of 593 USD mil in 2002 and an all time low of 1.00 USD mil in 1998.
When compared to Yemen's main peers, arms imports at constant USD prices from 1990
in Djibouti amounted to 9.00 USD mil, 614 USD mil in Oman and 1,911 USD mil in Saudi Arabia in 2015.

Yemen has been ranked 91st within the group of 134 countries we follow in terms of arms imports at constant USD prices from 1990,
70 places behind the position seen 10 years ago.

Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licences.

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Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licences. The data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armoured vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships designed for military use. Transfers of other military equipment, such as small arms and light weapons, trucks, light artillery, ammunition and support equipment, technology transfers, and other services are excluded. India, Australia and South Korea were the largest importers of arms in 2010, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, as they bought arms worth USD 3.3, 1.7 and 1.1 billion each (at 1990 constant prices).